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Description

Selecting and Implementing an Integrated Library System: The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make focuses on the intersection of technology and management in the library information world. As information professionals, many librarians will be involved in automation projects and the management of technological changes that are necessary to best meet patron and organizational needs.

As professionals, they will need to develop numerous skills, both technological and managerial, to successfully meet these challenges. This book provides a foundation for this skillset that will develop and acquaint the reader with a broad understanding of the issues involved in library technology systems.

Although a major topic of the book is integrated library systems (a fundamental cornerstone of most library technology), the book also explores new library technologies (such as open source systems) that are an increasingly important component in the library technology world. Users will find a resource that is geared to the thinking and planning processes for library technology that emphasizes the development of good project management skills.

Key Features

Embraces both technology and management issues as co-equals in successful library migration projects

Based on the experiences of a 20+ year career in libraries, including three major automation project migrations

Includes increasingly relevant subject matter as libraries continue to cope with shrinking budgets and expanding library demands for services

Contains the direct experiences of the University of Washington system in the Orbis-Cascade Alliance project, a project uniting 37 libraries across two states that combined both technical and public service functions

Readership

The primary market for this book would be library directors and systems librarians who are beginning to explore the idea of migrating to a new integrated library system.

Table of Contents

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Dedication

About the Author

List of Figures

Introduction

1. Brief History of Library Technology

Abstract

Brief history of library automation

2. Record Types and Print Library Workflows

Abstract

Components of library operations

Library workflows

3. Electronic Resources

Abstract

Electronic resources life cycle

4. Systems Librarians

Abstract

Systems librarianship

Hiring technical staff

Human resources

5. Project Management

Abstract

Project management

6. Change Management

Abstract

Definition

Change models

Support for change

7. Needs Assessment and the Library Automation Marketplace

Abstract

Needs assessment

Library automation marketplace

Software as a Service

Cloud computing

8. Open Source

Abstract

Open source

Open source vendors

Tools

9. Decision Trees and Consultants

Abstract

Consultants

10. Request for Proposal

Abstract

RFP process

11. Data Migration, Retrospective Conversion, and Barcodes

Abstract

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Retrospective conversion

Barcodes and RFID

12. Staff Training and Troubleshooting

Abstract

Staff training

Troubleshooting

User groups

13. Staffing the Libraries of the Future

Abstract

14. The Library Transformation in the Digital Age

Abstract

Library transformations

Social media

Conclusion

Appendix. The Orbis-Cascade Project

Impact of technology

Orbis-Cascade project

References

Index

Details

About the Author

Richard Jost

Richard Jost is currently the Information Systems Coordinator at the University of Washington Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library in Seattle. Prior to that, he served as the Assistant Librarian for Technical Services at the Gallagher Law Library from 1992 – 2008 and Assistant Librarian for Technical Services at the University of Colorado School of Law Library, Boulder campus, from 1988-1991. He has taught a class on library technology systems at the University of Washington Information School since 2000 and has been active in local, regional and national law library associations. He holds a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver (1985), a Master of Arts in International Studies from the American University (1980), and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland (1976).